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A CYPRESS'S RECUPERATIVE POWER.

In a communication to the West Chester (Penn.) Record, Mr. Isaac W. Van Leer, of Chester County, says: "In the Southern swamps the deciduous cypress sends up knobs from its roots, like straw boe-hives, apparently to air them by keeping part above water.

January 18, 1882

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